Powershell and the HPE 3PAR REST API
Lately, I’ve had the pleasure of using Powershell to automate some of the basic tasks we do on our HPE 3PAR systems: creating volumes, adding them to volume sets, exporting them and so on. Since my experience with REST APIs was rather limited it was quite daunting at first but once you get the hang of how REST works and the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet it’s really not that bad. Disclaimer: The examples below will vary somewhat in how I do certain things, simply because I had to learn all this from scratch....